Written with heart. Meant to endure. We publish the Latina and Latinx voices the literary mainstream keeps overlooking.
Palma and Ink was born from a love of literature, culture, and representation — and from the long-running frustration that the books we needed most weren't being made.
We exist to publish work that reflects the complexity of Latina and Latinx lives across generations, languages, and the in-between places. We are independent by design and proud of it: small enough to be deeply involved in every book, ambitious enough to think those books deserve the world.
Three currents that run through our list. We're hungry for manuscripts that live inside one of them — or, even better, sit at the place where they meet.
Stories of identity, family, first love, and becoming — rooted in culture and emotional realism. Books that meet teen readers as the full, complicated people they already are.
Stories that center Latina protagonists — emotional depth, slow burn, yearning, and meaningful connection. Heat and heart in equal measure, never one at the cost of the other.
Books that explore migration, tradition, modern life, and the music of code-switching. Stories that don't translate themselves — they trust the reader to come closer.
We are a small press by design. That means we can be deeply, almost impossibly involved in every book we publish — and that's exactly the point.
Palma and Ink is built on a foundation of Dominican storytelling and cultural memory — the merengue and the silence, the sancocho on the stove, the abuela who knew every neighbor's name, the cousins on three islands and four coasts. We make space for the stories that hold all of it: writers from the island, the mainland, and every place in between.
Palma and Ink began as a love letter — to the writers I grew up wishing I could find on a shelf, and to the readers still waiting for those books to exist.
After years of working in and around publishing, I kept noticing the same gap: stories about Latina and Latinx lives that were complicated, tender, bilingual, and unapologetically specific kept getting passed over for being "too niche." I started Palma and Ink in 2025 because that gap is not a marketing problem. It's a publishing one. So we're publishing.
We are small on purpose. We move slowly on purpose. We say yes carefully, and when we do, we mean it.
A debut novel about heritage, hunger, and the long, luminous business of becoming yourself. The first book in the Palma and Ink list — and a statement of everything we believe a book can be.
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